DNA of Winning Perspectives

Walter Scott offered heads up on the brain’s propensity to propel or stalemate talents, when he said,

Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity.

Your brain relies on accurate perspectives to win you success.

DNA of Winning Perspectives

In contrast, one distorted outlook can cloud current opportunities, barricade you from goals, and cause deep disappointments. Inconsistency of appearances can rob your confidence and undermine your courage to lead.

Views that drag you into ruts may come from allowing past mistakes or letdowns to cloud future opportunities.

Distorted vision emerges when you narrow or restrict focus to any one angle, without consideration for the other side. Ever allowed that persistent-need-to-be-right to block you from a relationship you once enjoyed?

Shift your outlook into mental wins, such as optimism, and you soon spot the difference. In that framework, your brain leads you forward like the flash- pause-flash- pause of a lighthouse guiding ships safely away from hidden shoals during a storm.

Look at challenges with solutions in mind, and you’ll find fluidity – much like Niagra Falls dances and sprays behind magificent rainbows near my home. No wonder innovative results tend to follow those who regularly reframe perception against delightful new lights.

Redirect Perspective from Loss to Wins

We now know more about how plasticity can change one’s mental perspective to step confidently into the future. Yes, in spite of past missteps.

Imagine where peaks ahead of you today could lead – if you simply changed your route to get there. How so? Hitch your wagon to a star, so that you’re less likely to stall in ditches, if the sky darkens.

No question – your new view requires repetition, to replace stress that settled you into cortisol driven views in the first place. Thanks to the brain’s plastic ability, outlooks that once held you back, begin fade with each confident step toward rejuvenated goals. You literally alter your brain cell connections for more confident perspectives along the way. How so?

Amazingly, every act in the opposite direction of worry, negativity, or cynicism – adds chemicals and electricity for bold new paths to a calmer life.

New perspectives for winning directions take root in the brain’s basal ganglia, that storehouse of your actions and responses, which lies beneath the prefrontal cortex. Focused on a novel goal, the basal ganglia shoots an enormous number of neural signals to guide the brain toward your rewired focus.

The brain holds chemical and electrical equipment for mapping new directions – away from worry, anxiety, or self-doubt.

Your brain tends to lead you to what you focus on and do. According to neuro specialist Dr. Doidge, the brain does not distinguish well between should or should not. For instance, if you focus on “not worrying,” you literally build more neuron pathways to worry. Reason enough to choose a relaxed perspective?

Knowing that it starts within you rather than in others, look first look in opposite directions of anxiety that wires entire organizations for pessimism and loss. Then, focus today on one novel way of thinking, however unnatural at first, in order to rewire from anxious to calm. Let us know what challenges you win over by the day’s end, that hold back others around you.

New Perspectives for Winning Brainpower

1. Invent one refreshing solution to replace a routine that leaves you bored or in a rut. It could be as simple as driving to work along a different route. Brain fact: Boredom is more a negative perspective shaped by daily choices, and stored in brain as a reality.

2. Uplift your work area with natural lighting. Brain fact: Environments influence your perspective, and a healthy well lit workplace often inspires new outlooks.

3. Thank a cranky worker for even a small accomplishment. Brain fact: Well being comes grateful outlooks – fueled and extended by serotonin chemical hormones.

4. Give an offender the gift of forgiveness, by letting go of a grudge. Brain fact: Anger, fear, and frustration lead to incriminating perspectives fueled by dangerous cortisol chemicals.

5 thoughts on “DNA of Winning Perspectives”

Thanks Greg, what a shining example for all of us to focus more on what we could do well, if we let go of the baggage along the way.

Steve Jobs was not perfect, as we’re not either – and yet he was so willing to use and develop his amazing strengths! Imagine what our future would hold if we each focused on what we could improve by using more of our talents.

Seems to me you have unlocked a perspective I can easily buy into! What’s more – because I know how brains work – I know your ideas work! Again thanks, Greg!

These are very helpful and insight tips Ellen, thank you! One of my favourite Steve Jobs quotes is “I don’t care about being right, I care about success.” and we all saw evidence of his focus on success.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

I agree – what an inspiration! It’s a great perspective to launch a successful venture today!

Steve Jobs was also a master of design who moved us from limited traditions as “mentors’ into unlimited communication opportunities as mindguides. See bit.ly/o4lUU0 –

One of Steve Job’s qualities that I admire is that he had a winning perspective about what he could accomplish. He says it so well himself, “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” He said this during his Commencement Address at Stanford. what an inspiration.